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I'm seeing lots of things being brought up I like or didn't think about. A shame I have to leave for work soon, otherwise I'd go and update the OP. Oh well, there's always tonight. I don't really understand the last ability at all. It isn't encouraging you to take a risk - it's just a general safety...

Does that you mean get full healing and MP for killing any monster in less than 30 turns after seeing it? That sounds completely broken. And this is why we have GDD! Anyway, on second thought, 30 turns is probably far too many for the timer. Maybe reduce it to 10, or less even, with possibly higher...

So, for quite a while now, I’ve been pondering ways to have a high-risk/high-reward type of play style that would be viable in Crawl. But for the longest time, all of my ideas basically boiled down to praying to the RNG gods that you nuke the hell out of your enemy instead of yourself. And… Xom alre...

I think they're just trying to Crazy Yiufy the topic. >.> The verbal scale that 10101011 suggested could work for in-game representation and it wouldn't be as unclear as stealth or MR. You would see that Disintegration would work on rock and it's "hard", so it'd be clear that it'd work on ...

That's seems unnecessarily wordy to achieve the same result.

0.14 Changelog: The Shoals dried up, all the water turned to sand, and is now called The Desert. All the Merfolk have been replaced by Merfolk that are slowly dying of thirst and all aquatic animals are replaced by flopping, skeletal fish. More seriously, I do like the idea of preventing trampling i...

I also personally wouldn't mind a level 7 Haste, but I think it's arbitrary to make that alteration, just as I think that what you say about Haste could apply to any popular spell. Sure, Haste is one of the most popular spells and cite some of the 0.13 tournament statistics, but saying "this u...

You know Haste is still a very powerful effect when one of the bigger reasons Chei is considered a "weak" or "bad" god by some players is that he specifically hates usage of Haste. (Yes, there's the whole slows your movement conduct, but that's the other big reason and it's not r...

Blowguns actually used to be their own skill before being merged into Throwing. I was new to Crawl when it happened, so my memory might be off, but I think it was because it was decided that it wasn't good to have a weapon school with only a single weapon type. One idea might be to merge darts and n...

Except everyone else gets actual ammo that is useful instead of just hoping to get some needles instead of thirteen more silver darts. True, but an ordinary javelin is much stronger than an ordinary arrow. Throwing is in a weird spot since it uses base-weapon types like melee but has ammo like laun...

Think of darts as the equivalent to getting chain mail or a short sword from Oka. Yeah, it's not going to be useful. But if he only gifted Javelins and needles for throwing, that'd roughly equivalent to him only gifting Demon Tridents and Bardiches for polearms. Personally, I'd rather the majority o...

Sar wrote:
TwilightPhoenix wrote:I feel uncanningly supportive for this idea.

Can you please represent your support with a number?

I feel 156 support for this idea.

I feel uncanningly supportive for this idea.

You see here an altar to Crazy Yiuf. It is constructed from a countless number of hammers.

How about Crazy Yiuf?

This isn't an issue anymore, since contaminated chunks don't cause sickness or nausea. Full health from contaminated chunks might work better. What about gourmand? Ah, that's a relic. I've been working and tweaking this proposal since .9 or .10. The sickness/nausea protection can just be discarded....

We could keep Cure Poison and add Transfer Poison as a lower level (no higher than 4 I'd say) Poison/Hexes spell. It'd be cool to use and it'd synergize nicely with OTR.

What with all the god ideas floating about, I decided to dredge up this older proposal again to maybe bring it some attention. It's still my favorite I've ever made by light years. So, you've probably seen this before, but keep in mind that I've tweaked and streamlined it during the last time I post...

This god feels like the foul offspring of a coupling between Makhleb and Elyvilon. Makhleb already summons demons. Elyvilon already does pacification. This basically leaves Belial with rHellfire and a Hellfire brand, neither of which are interesting enough in their own right for a whole god. Oh, and...

What about investing in a skill you would have put off? I can't think of an instance where that's happened to me (memory might be failing me though). They've either been stuff I wasn't interested in, like Long Blades after hitting min delay for my Executioner's Axe, or skills I was already training...

I'm honestly not sure if a manual has ever made me invest in a skill I would have otherwise ignored. I never seem to find them until around Vaults.

The puff of flame hits you.
Seven of your twenty CYC posts catch fire!

Except in practice Xom does that maybe one time every thousand games. Except in practice Xom doesn't act multiple times every single fight or somehow makes your actions unreliable by making the buttons that normally kill enemies have random effects like paralysis, berserk or poly self. And the chao...

If people carrying around 30 potions of HW is problematic, one simple step would be to cap stackable items. Say like, each stack of potions can only be five deep. Pick up HW #6? It starts a new stack. Hence the 52 limit would have a much larger impact on the number of consumables you can carry, espe...

Thing is, with or without item destruction, you're going to have tedious inventory management regardless. Without it, you run into elliptic's argument. With it, you're instead micromanaging your inventory and auto-pick up so that you carry an optimal number of each type of consumable while also havi...

Tinkering with inventories and removing options is fine. But really, item destruction, as implemented, is just an annoying and unfun way to do it. That and it induces weekly rants, which are also unfun. At the very least, can't we go for a middle ground in the mean time? Like, say, an attack must do...

What, I pick CK with the expectation of winning all the time thank you very much. The chaos branded weapon was a blow to CKs reliability and an undeserved one at that. Considering that Xom can literally one-shot you with a miscast effect on turn 5, Chaos Knight really isn't the background to try to...

You don't pick Chaos Knight with the expectation that you'll win. Just like you don't worship Xom with the expectation that you'll win. If the Chaos brand doesn't appeal to you, just start a Fighter or something. You can always pick up Xom ASAP.

Item destruction's greatest accomplishment is giving us the weekly rant about item destruction. Beyond that, it really doesn't do anything that isn't better handled with already existing mechanics. And what little it does do besides induce rants is very much not worth the tedious stashing behavior i...

You call upon the dead to rise...

Yo momma is walking!

Trampling was fun and quite useful when playing a Chei-follower in Dragon Form, especially since it let me move around at normal speed while hitting things.

But that's an edge case.

What about if the longer you are in combat, the stronger your weapon gets? This would encourage the Trog-like behavior of not waiting to heal all the way, or to use Trogs hand to prolong your fight. This could work too. I would tie it to something like kills, damage inflicted to enemies, or somethi...

...more space in the subject line. This idea came to me semi-randomly after reading a few comments in that Jewel god proposal. I don't know why since it's not really related, but inspiration works in mysterious ways. Anyway, let's keep this short and sweet. There's three aspects to this proposal. -T...

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

But, I am with shock -- I think we can consider other effects and I especially like making poison similar to contamination/glow. I like this idea. Could have a variety of effects increasing based on severity and it'd never quite be the same thing. (And I'd be okay with a chance slow here in light o...

I might have messed up on the Slow effect. Still though, there's too much overlap for my taste (and again, we already have Curare). Also, mashing 5 has everything to do with it. Mashing 5 to remove Poison also clears the affiliated slow effect. Additionally, the proposal in this topic was to adjust ...

I dislike the "poison causes slow" suggestions and this is not a "whining and complaining in advance" post. First of all, we already have Curare, which does... Poison + Slow. Curare is a neat thing, perhaps a bit too rare, but it's good that it's not too common. Before delving in...

The one nifty thing about deterministic and visible-ahead-of-time poison damage is there's definitely a certain horror in seeing all of your HP bar turn purple and knowing, unquestionably, that you will die if you don't act. I like it.

XuaXua wrote:Took 18 images to get "interesting", 6 of which were directly related to Crawl, starting with image 2. The first image was a pretty house with a terrible porch add-on next to it.

Internet. I am most disappoint.

@Duvessa: I dare you to try Googling Beastly Appendage with safe search off. I'm sure you'll get... "interesting" results.

OP. I'll just grind pan for enough spell power to get a "Summon orb of zot" spell, and cast it next to the dungeon entrance. The problem with that is it only creates a proposal of the spell, so you'd be waiting for a while before you can summon the Orb of Zot. Plus even at max spell power...

Actually, I always thought Iron Shot was a bunch of iron pellets. But they were behaving more like they were shot out of a heavily choked shotgun, so their spread would be pretty minimal. Enough to the point that they could be treated as a single projectile. Or, if you prefer, sort of like a kid pic...

Off-hand suggestion: if a player is able to rest for, say, 20 turns or so, poison can either cure itself instantly or drop down to the next level (red to light red to yellow to none), whichever is better for gameplay. 20ish turns is long enough that a player can't get healed by ducking behind a corn...

To be honest, I really don't know how killing things dead more efficiently doesn't make you safer than not killing things dead more efficiently. During my one 15-rune game (I hate extended, so I usually get no more than 5), I had Ice Storm. That spell made Zot so easy I cleared it for XP before I ha...

Training Necromancy should get you piety decay and penance related in some fashion to the amount of XP you're putting into the skill. Sort of like how Trog dislikes you training magic.

Edit: If they already do this, then don't kill me because I've never trained Necro while following a good god.

Boggarts are one of the very few reasons why the Wand of Polymorph is worth carrying around.

This is a level 9 Hexs/Charms/Translocation spell. When casted, Proposal posts a topic to the Game Development forum with a title in a format similar to this topic's format. The higher the spell power, the more likely people reading the proposal will be in favor of including the new spell in the gam...

It sounds like an interesting idea, but perhaps no delay on the movement and instead reduce the max possible range of the blink? It'd make it easier to control and easier to handle from both an adjustment perspective and an auto-explore perspective.

Well, there's some good things in a few posts, but it has mostly devolved into a "NO IT ISN'T!" "YES IT IS!" shouting match. Anyway, I find Chei to be quite powerful but very difficult to leverage. If you can make Chei and his abilities work entirely to your benefit, then he's ri...

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